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User manual for Cantar-X1 & X2 v2.15 2008 March 28
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•••• Circular modulometers
Cantar’s large circular modulometers, visible under the
brightest light as well as in the dark, are the most accurate
metering tools found in any portable recorder. They feature
a non-linear scale with increased resolution (1dB) in the most
important range: -55 to -40dBFS (5dB per segment); -40 to -
32dBFS (2dB / segment); -32 to -12dBFS (1dB / segment);
-12 to 0dBFS (3dB / segment).
The peak level segment hold duration is adjustable from 0.5
to 5 seconds (see TECHSET.12).
The Tracks are grouped into ‘natural’ pairs: T1 T2, T3 T4,
T5 T6. When a track is momentarily dis-armed, its modu-
lometer appears dashed.
••••• Monitoring physical status
The center of each circular screen continually displays the
status of the main recording elements:
• activity of the internal HDD (‘three-platter’ icon on the left
screen), the external HDD (‘three-platter’ icon on the middle
screen), and the DVD (‘one-platter’ icon on the right screen).
Disk activity is highlighted by the presence of the track IDs
recorded on it.
• sync clock mode: either master
int c
or slave
ext c
.
• mic preamplifier status: Limiter on/off, Direct/Invert,
Phantom on/off.
• the current monitor map name (sent to the phones too) is
constantly displayed by large alphanumeric characters.
• the activation of the
mixdown recording
on T7 T8 is
indicated by the ‘
mix
’ icon next to the ‘7’ and ‘8’ black
squares.
note:
the screens are visible in very bright sunlight, to save
backlight power, see TECHSET.03 ‘Backlight’ (p.33).
Rectangular screen
• 'Operating' functions control
(p.10)
In STOP
top row :
batt-L & batt-R voltage
middle row :
system time
bottom row :
system date.
In TEST or REC
top row :
tracks T7 T8 modulome-
ters. With [jog], battery voltage,
available recording time, and
remaining disk space. The [eye]
button toggles display of tracks T5 T6 or T7 T8 on the right
modulometer.
middle row :
the source and the TC stamped in the audio
files: ‘
Atc
’ (ASCII-TC), ‘
Ltc
’ (jam from LTC), ‘
Stc
’ (from the
system calendar), ‘
Otc
’ (operator entered TC), ‘
Rtc
’ (Record-
Run TC), and ‘
Etc
’ (slaved to an external clock).
bottom row:
(in TEST) current project name; (in REC) ‘filetag
& duration’ or ‘scene & take’ by [shift] [eye]. While adjust-
ing a pan-pot, the track rank, plus the maximum gain value
of the whole mixer panel (0dB or +6dB) are displayed.
In PPR or BROWSE
scene, take, track-names, com-
ments, Sound-Roll/Shoot Day, for
their editing (p.19 & p.25).
I
n PLAY
player’s position, cue points, ab-
solute time, ‘filetag & duration’ or
‘scene & take’ (p.24).
•• ‘Operands’ functions control
(p.26)
In IN-GRIDS, AUDIO/TC, TECHSET, SESSION and BACKUP, the
pathtree of each parameter is displayed.
top row
: the ‘Operand’,
e.g. AUDIO/TC.
middle row:
parameter name,
e.g. SampleRate.
bottom row:
parameter value, e.g. 48048.
Description 5,
left screen
Internal HDD
right screen
CD/DVD
middle screen
External HDD
AUDIO/TC 01
SampleRate
48048
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